What do you think the social structure among the northern mountain clans is like? Even though they have ostensible leaders like ‘the Wull,’ does their kin-based nature make the distinction between highborn and lowborn less relevant? How did the Scottish Highlanders on whom they are based shake out?

Discussed here. If they’re any similar to the Highlander clans, the northern hill clans follow the custom of fictive kinship, in which the smallfolk of House Wull are considered Wulls themselves, with certain rights that pertain to that.

Now, that doesn’t mean the distinction between high and low is less relevant – being a crofter in the Highlands was not an easy life, even before the enclosure movement and the Industrial Revolution – just that it takes different forms.